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Personal Trading by Mutual Fund Managers Washington University Law Review Volume 73 Issue 4 January 1995 Foxes and Hen Houses?: Personal Trading by Mutual Fund Managers Edward B. Rock University of Pennsylvania Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview Recommended Citation Edward B. Rock, Foxes and Hen Houses?: Personal Trading by Mutual Fund Managers, 73 WASH. U. L. Q. 1601 (1995). Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol73/iss4/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Law Review by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FOXES AND HEN HOUSES?: PERSONAL TRADING BY MUTUAL FUND MANAGERS EDWARD B. ROCK* INTRODUCTION America's money is managed by professionals.' In this "fourth stage of capitalism,"' ensuring that those who manage our money do so in our interests becomes the critical question. This Article examines that question by focusing on the regulation of the personal trading activities of the managers of tomorrow's dominant institutional investor, mutual funds. Institutional investors are a varied group-public and private pension funds, life insurance companies, commercial bank trust departments, charitable trusts and mutual funds. An unanticipated consequence of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's ("ERISA") full funding requirement," only now becoming clear, is that mutual funds are and will continue growing at the expense of traditional pension funds.4 ERISA's requirement that pension liabilities be fully funded has had the effect of driving money away from traditional defined benefit pension plans6 * Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School. B.S. Yale College (1977), B.A. Oxford University (1980); J.D. University of Pennsylvania (1983). I am grateful for helpful comments from Thomas Harman, Jonathan Macey, Eric Orts, Menahem Spiegel, William Tyson, Michael Wac hter, and participants in workshops at the University of Haifa Law Faculty and the Securities Author )tyof the State of Israel. 1. The largest money management firm, Fidelity, now manages over $275 billion in assets. America's Top 300 Money Managers, INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR, July 1994, at 113. 2. ROBERT C. CLARK, The Four Stages of Capitalism: Reflections on Investment Management Treaties, 94 HARV. L. REV. 561 (1981) (reviewing TAMAR FRANKEL, THE REGULATION OF MONEY MANAGERS (1978) and HARVEY E. BINES, THE LAW OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT (1978)). 3. ERISA §§ 301-06, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1081-86 (1994). 4. While a substantial amount of work has been done on the regulation of money managers, see generally TAMAR FRANKEL, THE REGULATION OF MONEY MANAGERS (1978), the most recent discussions of institutional investors have focused largely on pension funds. See, e.g., Bernard Black, Agents Watching Agents: The Premise of InstitutionalInvestor Voice, 39 UCLA L. REV. 811 (1992); John C. Coffee, Jr., Liquidity Versus Control: The Institutional Investor as Corporate Monitor, 91 COLUM. L. REV. 1277 (1991); Edward B. Rock, The Logic and (Uncertain)Significance ofInstitutional ShareholderActivism, 79 GEO. L.J. 445 (1991). 5. ERISA §§ 301-06, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1081-86 (1994). 6. A defined benefit pension plan is one where the employing firm promises an employee a certain pension (usually a percentage of terminal salary) upon retirement. The investment risk in such 1601 Washington University Open Scholarship 1602 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW QUARTERLY [VOL. 73:1601 towards defined contribution plans.7 Almost all of this defined contribution plan money flows into mutual funds, explaining the large growth in mutual fund investing. According to one recent estimate, twenty-seven percent of all U.S. households-almost 40 million people-have more than $2 trillion invested in mutual funds.8 Now, against this background, come revelations of questionable behavior by mutual fund managers. Patricia Ostrander, a portfolio manager for Fidelity, was convicted of accepting an invitation to acquire valuable warrants from Drexel Burnham Lambert, after causing her fund to buy Drexel junk bonds.9 John Kaweske, a successful and high profile money manager at the Invesco fund group, was fired for failing to report his personal trades to the mutual fund company,' ° and has now been charged by the SEC with misusing his professional position to benefit himself and others close to him."' Most recently, John Wallace, a top Oppenheimer fund manager, was fined $20,000 for failing to report thirteen personal trades. 12 In the wake of Kaweske's firing, it appeared that personal trading by fund managers was widespread. Some claimed that "[b]etter managers can earn as much trading for themselves as they are paid by the company to manage other people's money."' 3 And these managers are already well 14 paid. Personal trading by fund managers became, for a while at least, the issue a plan is borne by the employing firm. 7. A defined contribution plan is one where the employing firm's commitment is limited to a defined contribution. In this type of plan, which is fully funded ab initio, the employee bears the investment risk. S. Patrick Harveson, FundManagers Face Private TradingCurbs: Protecting U.S. Investors, FIN, TiMEs, Feb. 24, 1994, at 6. 9. Ronald Sullivan, Fund Manager Convicted of Taking Milken Bribes, N.Y. TiMES, July 29, 1992, at Dl. 10. See Sam Calian, Kaweske Denies MisusingPosition as FundManager, ,VALLST, J., May 18, 1995, at C13. 11. SEC v. Kaweske, No. 14399, 1995 SEC LEXIS 330, at *1 (D. Colo. Feb. 6, 1995); see also FormerInvesco Fund Manager Chargedin FraudScheme, SEC Announces, 27 Sec. REa. & L. REP. 249 (Feb. 10, 1995). 12. Robert McGough & Sam Calian, Oppenheimer Management Fund's Head Is Fined by SEC for PersonalTrades, WALL ST. J., Mar. 1, 1995, at A6. 13. Brett D. Fromson, FundManagers' Own Trades Termed a Potential Conflict; Biggest Mutual FundFirm Tightens Rules, WASH. POST,Jan. 11, 1994, at AI. 14. At Fidelity, a manager of a fund with $1 billion in assets is said to earn between $600,000 and $2.5 million in salary and bonuses. Fromson, supra note 13, at Al. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol73/iss4/3 19951 FOXES AND HEN HOUSES? 1603 of the day. 5 In a letter to the SEC, Congress expressed its concern that personal trading presented a serious problem.' 6 In response, the SEC opened an investigation, requested information on the private trading of thirty mutual funds, and eventually issued a report addressing the problem.' 7 The Investment Company Institute (the "ICI"), the mutual fund trade group, responded to the furor by forming a blue ribbon advisory group that issued its own report and made recommendations in advance of the SEC report.'8 The chief concern, said many, was the protection of investors and the protection of the integrity of the mutual fund market. 9 Investors will cease to buy mutual funds, some worried, unless they are reassured that the market is fair-and private trading by fund managers undermines that perception. The controversy over private trading by money managers, which is important in its own right, provides the perfect context for examining the larger set of issues relating to the regulation of money managers. Private trading by fund managers and the public outcry following revelations of impropriety are typical of a host of tempests that will arise in the future, and therefore demand close scrutiny now. In this Article, I examine the regulation of personal trading by money 15. See, e.g., Ronald Campbell, Portfolio PiratesPillage Mutual Funds, ARIz. REPUBLIC, June 4, 1994, at CI; Susan Antilla, Money Managers Who Cross the Line, N.Y. TIMES, Jan. 16, 1994, at C13. 16 Letter from Edward J. Markey, Chairman, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Rep.,.to Arthur J. Levitt, Jr., Chairman, SEC (Jan. 1I, 1994), cited in INVESTMENT CO. INST., REPORT OF THE ADVISORY GROUP ON PERSONAL INVESTING 2-3 (May 9, 1994) [hereinafter ICI REPORT]. 17. Letter from Arthur J. Levitt, Jr., Chairman, SEC, to Edward J. Markey, Chairman, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Rep. (Feb. 9, 1994), cited in ICI REPORT, supra note 16, at 2-3. See also, Albert B. Crenshaw, SEC Looks at Fund Managers; Inquiry is Focusingon PersonalTrading, WASH. POST, Feb. 11, 1994, at El; DIVISION OF INV. MANAGEMENT, U.S. SEC. & EXCH. COMM'N, PERSONAL INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES OF INVESTMENT COMPANY PERSONNEL: DIVISION OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT (Sept. 1994) [hereinafter SEC REPORT]. 18. ICI REPORT, supra note 16. 19. See, e.g, Steve Bailey & Aaron Zitner, Mutual Fund Managers Come Under Scrutiny, B. GLOBE, Jan. 16, 1994, at Al (quoting J. Carter Beese, Jr., an SEC commissioner, saying that the real concern is not the violation, but the deterioration of trust which may cause the public to lose confidence in the industry as a whole). See infra note 106 and accompanying text. See also Stan Hinden, Proposed Personal Trading Limits Have Funds and Managers on Edge, WASH. POST, Feb. 23, 1994, at F3 (reporting SEC Commissioner Richard Y. Roberts' belief that a ban on personal trading may help preserve the trust and confidence which is critical to the success of mutual funds); Tom Petruno, Hard Questions for Fund Industry, CHI. SuN-TIMEs, Jan. 18, 1994, at 48 (suggesting that the small investor needs to feel confident that mutual fund managers differ from the "market crooks" of the 1980's and that fund managers will provide a "square deal"). Washington University Open Scholarship 1604 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW QUARTERLY [VOL. 73:1601 managers as a vehicle for better understanding the bases and strategies for regulating money managers in general. In Part I, after briefly describing the organizational and regulatory frameworks of the mutual fund industry, I describe the regulations governing personal trading by money managers.
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